Solo Quotes - Page 5

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

  Lil Wayne

  School, Albums, Firsts

  "The Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2". Documentary, 2010.

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• It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

  Robbie Williams

  Responsibility, Huge

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• My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

  John Zorn

  Together, Get Up, Improvisation

  "Interview hits dissonant chord with John Zorn" by Lee Hildebrand, www.sfgate.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Should

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• While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.

  Ginger Rogers

  Flying, Trying, Together

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

  Fiona Apple

  Kings, Fall, Fighting

  "Are these really the worst album titles of all time?". featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. September 19, 2007.

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• On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, College, Anchors

  "Getting Beyond 'Firsts'" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

  Noel Gallagher

  Artist, Mad, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

  Sebastian Bach

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• The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

  Steven Morrissey

  Meaningful, Writing, Years

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• The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

  Sebastian Bach

  Looks, Want, Way

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• There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Two, People, Creative

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

  Sara Genn

  Shining, Values

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

  Robert Glasper

  Iphone, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  Frank Iero

  Dream, Song, Spring

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Ideas, Needs, Definite

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• The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Sorrow, Distillation

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• It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.

  Pantha du Prince

  Fun, Real, Party

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

  Dane Cook

  Character, Imagination, Effort

  "Dane Cook Talks Comedy Special TROUBLEMAKER, Following His Plan for a Live Show, His Upcoming Indie 400 DAYS, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Sex, Enemy

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.27, Ultramarine Publishing

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• In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
  [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

  Juvenal

  Eating, Reason, Palate

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• Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

  Bryan Singer

  Sarcastic, Stars, War

  Source: collider.com

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• I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire.

  Ted Nugent

  Military, Night, Fire

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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